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VIDEO! Incentive Stock Options (ISOs): Taxes

Bruce Brumberg

Running time: 2:12.

To make the most of incentive stock options (ISOs), you must understand their tax fundamentals, explained by the editor-in-chief of myStockOptions.com in this engaging video. Featuring animated examples, the video covers:

the alternative minimum tax (AMT)

the beneficial tax treatment of ISOs, which can result in all long-term capital gains income and no ordinary income on your tax return

what is needed to receive the special ISO tax treatment and what happens when ISO shares are not held long enough to get it